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On CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Michael Oko talks about the roots of the growing green youth movement [video below]... In a blog tracking the events and people in Davos, Switzerland the Wall Street Journal interviews Frances Beinecke about...continued→
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David Doniger calls Bush’s environmental legacy a “wasteland” in the Houston Chronicle…In the Washington Post John Walke criticizes a lackadaisical new EPA rule that will make it easier for industrial plants, refineries and paper mills to expand operations without applying...continued→
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In the Associated Press David Hawkins talks about how unions and green groups can work together to dispel rumors and promote their mutual interests: clean, green, well paying American jobs... Jake Schmidt optimistically points to developing economies' "emerging willingness to...continued→
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Frances Beinecke contemplates what it will mean to have an advocate for the environment in the White House in her Huffington Post blog, and emphasizes that green energy and green tech will be very strong tools that will help rebuild...continued→
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NPR reports on the clean air program NRDC has successfully sued the Ports of LA and Long Beach to institute, which will essentially convert America’s dirtiest ports into the cleanest; Dave Pettit talks about the precedent setting nature of the...continued→
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Reuters, Zdnet, a site with over 1.7 million monthly viewers, and the Tennessean wrote about NRDC's newest green jobs report that suggests 2 million green jobs could be created with just $100 billion in tax credits and government investment... Reuters...continued→
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In the LA Times, David Pettit reflects on the successful signup of cleaner trucking companies to service the ports of LA and Long Beach, chastising the ATA for using empty scare tactics and claiming that reducing port pollution couldn’t...continued→
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On KNPR, Nevada Public Radio, NRDC consultant Timothy Hay talks about the shortcomings and flaws of a Nevada global warming solutions report recently published by a state appointed committee… In the Missoulian, Chuck Magraw talks about the growing demand...continued→
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In the LA Times Bottleneck blog Dave Pettit critiques LA’s MTA (and the Judge that ruled against the Bus Riders Union suit) for making it harder, not easier, for riders to use public transportation by raising fares yet again…...continued→
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Julia Bovey emphasizes that oil drilled in the US won’t necessarily go to into US gas tanks or help consumer pocketbooks in Reuters… In the San Francisco Chronicle Jim Presswood drew attention to the obvious flaws of coastal oil...continued→
